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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nataraj say he should have done if he cared for a peaceful existence?
(a) Negotiate with his family.
(b) Reject Vasu on the first day.
(c) Run the printing press by himself.
(d) Close his parlour.

2. What activity does Vasu start to engage in as his poaching becomes more difficult?
(a) Vasu starts yelling and threatening the neighborhood children.
(b) Vasu starts bringing women to the apartment.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Vasu starts bullying people for money.

3. Nataraj denies that Vasu is a tenant, but claims he is what?
(a) An invader.
(b) A demon.
(c) A friend.
(d) A murderer.

4. Why was Nataraj a little disappointed that Vasu was not drunk during the jeep ride to Mempi?
(a) It was worse that Vasu would conduct himself the way he did dead sober.
(b) He was hoping that Vasu would fall asleep in Mempi.
(c) He was hoping to stop at a bar for a drink himself.
(d) None of the above.

5. What is the Star?
(a) The restaurant on the corner.
(b) The newspaper Nataraj prints.
(c) The epic poem of Krishna.
(d) The newspaper printed right next door.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sastri change the conversation with the septuagenarian?

2. What does Nataraj answer when Vasu asks him how many people he employs in his press?

3. What stories does Sastri tell Nataraj?

4. Is Vasu Nataraj's tenant?

5. What does Nataraj call Vasu?

Short Essay Questions

1. What business does Nataraj do when he is in Mempi?

2. What kind of events unfold in chapter one of "The Man-eater of Malgudi?"

3. Explain how Vasu arranges to move into Nataraj's attic.

4. What goes on the front room of the shop that Nataraj runs?

5. What is the story of the house on Kabir Street?

6. What does Nataraj do when he has difficulty finding a puppy for the septuagenarian's grandson? How does his own son get involved?

7. Who does Vasu bring to the press to meet Nataraj, and what happens?

8. Explain the transaction between Nataraj and the old Moslem.

9. Where does Nataraj seek help in resolving his legal affairs?

10. How does Vasu respond to Nataraj's first efforts to remove him from the attic?

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